Professor Passty received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Southern California in 1978. Dr. Passty's research is in Parallel Sum of Monotone Operators, Convex Optimization, Iterative Construction of Fixed Points of Nonexpansive Mappings, and Splitting Algorithms. An area in which Dr. Passty would be interested in directing a dissertation would be in Nonlinear Analysis, specifically Optimization of Convex Functions.